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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026

Filed:

May. 21, 2025
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Nagaraja K. Pai, Lancaster, PA (US);

Boguslaw Wiecek, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 7/15 (2006.01); E21B 36/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 7/15 (2013.01); E21B 36/001 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electrocrushing drilling apparatus may include a downhole electrocrushing drill assembly that is part of a bottomhole assembly coupled to a downhole end of a coiled tubing drill string. The coiled tubing drill string can be deployed into a wellbore of a hydrocarbon well to advance the wellbore by way of an electrocrushing drilling operation whereby formation rock is fractured by high voltage electrical energy pulses emitted by electrodes of a drill bit of the electrocrushing drill assembly. Potential damage to electronic or other components of the bottomhole assembly due to excess heat generated by power losses of electrocrushing drill assembly can be minimized or prevented by actively cooling the electronic or other components of the bottomhole assembly using a liquid coolant that is conveyed from an earth surface of the well downhole to the bottomhole assembly and passed through the electronic or other components of the bottomhole assembly.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Pai, Nagaraja. (2026). Cooling of electrocrushing drill assembly (U.S. Patent No. 12644340). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12644340

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